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$1.7 Million Gone: Ontario Woman Loses Everything to Elon Musk Deepfake Crypto Scam
AI Incident DB Blogยท2 months ago

A woman in Ontario lost $1.7 million to a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam that used deepfake technology to impersonate Elon Musk. This represents a concrete case of AI-enabled fraud causing documented financial harm to a real victim.
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